The difference between Enter and Exit

When used as verbs, enter means to go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space, whereas exit means to go out.


Exit is also noun with the meaning: a way out.

check bellow for the other definitions of Enter and Exit

  1. Enter as a verb (intransitive):

    To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

    Examples:

    "You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked."

  2. Enter as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

    Examples:

    "to enter a knife into a piece of wood;  nowrap to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc."

  3. Enter as a verb (figuratively):

    To go or come into (a state or profession).

    Examples:

    "My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.  nowrap She had planned to enter the legal profession."

  4. Enter as a verb (transitive):

    To type (something) into a computer; to input.

    Examples:

    "'Enter your user name and password."

  5. Enter as a verb (transitive):

    To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

  6. Enter as a verb (intransitive, law):

    To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

  7. Enter as a verb (law, intransitive):

    To become effective; to come into effect.

  8. Enter as a verb (legal):

    To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

  9. Enter as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.

    Examples:

    "to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment"

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  10. Enter as a verb:

    to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.

  11. Enter as a verb (transitive, US, dated, historical):

    To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.

  12. Enter as a verb:

    to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

    Examples:

    "entered according to act of Congress"

  13. Enter as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To initiate; to introduce favourably.

  1. Enter as a noun (computing):

  2. Enter as a noun (computing):

  1. Exit as a noun:

    A way out.

    Examples:

    "He was looking for the exit and got lost''."

  2. Exit as a noun:

    A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.

    Examples:

    "She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside''."

  3. Exit as a noun:

    The action of leaving.

    Examples:

    "He made his exit at the opportune time''."

  4. Exit as a noun:

    Death.

    Examples:

    " The untimely exit of a consummate politician''."

  1. Exit as a verb:

    To go out.

  2. Exit as a verb:

    To leave.

  3. Exit as a verb (euphemism):

    To die.

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